Comments on: Tasty Linux News

By: Richard Blumberg

Richard Blumberg — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:48:56 +0000

Those using Mint 12 owe it to themselves to check out Cinnamon, Mint’s latest desktop. Best user experience I’ve had with Linux.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:05 +0000

I thought that I had that covered, but when I tested the drive before upgrade the drive said “SSCCFRRRTTTCHHH” over and over and none of the data could be transferred.

I didn’t proceed with the upgrade.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:36:14 +0000

I can be done but it is one of those things you do after you’ve backed everything up. You should probably get an external hard drive and put your data on that. You should have that anyway.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:53:39 +0000

No. Is it too late to do that without losing all my data? When I installed Mint initially I only created one partition.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:26:10 +0000

I take it your $home is not on a separate partition?

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:51:27 +0000

I was really planning on upgrading from Mint 9, but my backup hard drive died and I just don’t want to lose 128 gig of data.

By: F

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:45:09 +0000

Man, people sure hate Gnome3.

Well, they at least want all the stripped-out functionality back, which is why Mint came up with the “extensions” for 3 to be more like 2.

Yeah, this isn’t terribly new info, but a lot of people still don’t know about it. And I love it that Greg Laden promotes at least some alternative OSes/distros, because, um, variety is the spice of living things.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:20:02 +0000

I got all that news from sjvn weeks ago. Man, people sure hate Gnome3.

By: starskeptic

starskeptic — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:16:39 +0000

Also new cinnamon desktop…